Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1883 — A Nebraska Sharper. [ARTICLE]

A Nebraska Sharper.

A Nebraska thief devotes his time entirely to the larceny of hogs, and with great, success. He goes forth by night armed with a long stick, to which a sponge is fastened and a bottle of chloroform. The porcine victim is lulled to rest by the anaesthetic and then born silently away. One night one of the slumbering hogs rolled out of the thief's wagon. A kind-hear|ed farmer who came along the road assisted the thief to load up again, amid profuse thanks. When the farmer reached home he discovered that the pig was from his own sty.— Omaha Herald.